- Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer, molecular biologist, and medical researcher. Pauling is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds. - Dick Fosbury
Richard Douglas ("Dick") Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American athlete who revolutionized the high jump using a back-first technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar. Dick Fosbury, born in Portland, Oregon, first started experimenting with this new technique at age 16, while attending high school in Medford, Oregon. - Donald Pettit
Donald Roy Pettit (born 20 April 1955) is an American astronaut, a veteran of a six month stay aboard the International Space Station. Pettit, raised in Silverton, Oregon, earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in 1983. Pettit worked as a scientist as the Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1996, when he was selected as an astronaut candidate. - Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, … - Jen-Hsun Huang
Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become one of the largest fabless semiconductor companies in the world. - Douglas McKay
(James) Douglas McKay (June 24, 1893-July 22, 1959) was a Republican from Oregon who entered politics after an earlier career in business, to first become governor of the state, and later a cabinet officer. - William Oefelein
William Anthony "Bill" Oefelein (born March 29, 1965 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut. He flew as pilot of the STS-116 space shuttle mission. - Mike Rich
Mike Rich (born 1959) is an American screenwriter best known for his writing on sports-related films. A graduate of Oregon State University, Rich began his media career as a news reporter for a Portland radio station. In 1998 he was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his first film script "Finding Forrester". Most recently, he wrote "The Nativity Story", about the birth of Jesus. - John Ensign
John Eric Ensign (born 25 March 1958) is the junior United States Senator from Nevada. He is a member of the Republican Party, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and was recently re-elected in the 2006 midterm elections. - Jodi Ann Paterson
Jodi Ann Paterson (born July 31, 1975) is an American model, actress and former beauty queen. - Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman: Chairman, Andrus Center for Public Policy. Governor Andrus was elected four times to serve as governor, the only governor in Idahos history to be so honored by its citizens. In addition, he served a full term as Secretary of Interior during the Carter Administration and established a national reputation as a - Milton Harris
Milton Harris (March 21, 1906-September 12, 1991) was a scientist who founded the Harris Research Laboratories and, for six years, chaired the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Sciences. Harris was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first independent business enterprise, at the age of twelve or thirteen, was building crystal radio sets. A high school science course piqued his interest in chemistry. - Paul H. Emmett
Paul Hugh Emmett (September 22, 1900 - April 22, 1985) was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions. In 1976, Emmett married Pauling's sister, Pauline. Dr. - Octave Levenspiel
Octave Levenspiel is an Emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. He is recognized by the chemical engineering community as the father of chemical reaction engineering, a branch of chemical engineering studying the application of chemical reaction kinetics to the design of chemical reactors. He was born in Shanghai, China, in 1926, where he attended a German grade school, an English high school and a French university. - Sara Jean Underwood
Sara Jean Underwood (born 26 March 1984) is an American model and student. She first appeared as the cover model for the October 2005 issue of "Playboy". She went on to become Playmate of the Month for July 2006 and 2007 Playmate of the Year in the June 2007 issue of the men's magazine. She is a senior at Oregon State University. She is a native of Portland, Oregon and graduated from Scappoose High School in 2002. - George Oppen
George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism, and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry - and to the United States - in 1958, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. - John A. Young
John A. Young succeeded William Hewlett as president of Hewlett-Packard in 1977, and as chief executive officer in 1978. In 1992, he retired from his position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a position he held for fifteen years. He has had a long association with competitiveness issues, having chaired President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and founded the Council on Competitiveness in 1986. Young is also a director of Affymetrix, Chevron Corporation, … - Katharine Jefferts Schori
Katharine Jefferts Schori, D.D., Ph.D. (born March 26, 1954 in Pensacola, Florida) is the Presiding Bishop of Episcopal Church in the United States of America. She is the first woman elected primate in the Anglican Communion. Presiding Bishops are elected to their nine-year term by the House of Bishops with the concurrence of the House of Deputies. As Presiding Bishop, the correct form of address is "The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori". - Norris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 - September 25, 1982) served as mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California state assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years. Born in Baker County, Oregon to Danish parents, Poulson attended Oregon State University for two years before marrying Erna June Loennig on December 25, 1916. The couple arrived in Los Angeles in 1923, … - Marion Eugene Carl
Marion Eugene Carl, USMC, (November 1, 1915 - June 28, 1998) was a World War II fighter ace, record setting test pilot, and a notable naval aviator. He was the first Marine Corps ace in World War II. - Michael Lowry
Michael Lowry (born March 20 1968 in Staten Island, New York) is an American actor best known for his role as Jake Martin on "All My Children" from 1996 to 2000. He has also appeared in the soap opera "As The World Turns" as Les Sweeney in 2004 and 2005. He has also made guest appearances in prime time shows like "Las Vegas", "The Drew Carey Show", "Diagnosis Murder" and "King of Queens". - Pinto Colvig
Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (born September 11, 1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA - died of lung cancer on October 3, 1967 in Woodland Hills, California, USA) was a vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1911. Colvig is probably best known as the voice of Disney's Goofy and the original Bozo the Clown, … - Webley Edwards
Webley Edwards (November 11, 1902 - October 5, 1977) was a World War II news correspondent and Hawaiian radio personality. - Jolene Unsoeld
Jolene Unsoeld, (born 3 December 1931), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. She represented the Third Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat. Unsoeld was born in Corvallis, Oregon on 3 December 1931. She attended Oregon State University from 1949-1951. She was married to Willi Unsoeld, a mountaineer and later college professor. - Darlene Hooley
Darlene Hooley (born April 4 1939 in Williston, North Dakota) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon and represents the 5th Congressional District. Hooley resides in West Linn, Oregon. In the 2006 election, Hooley won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Republican Mike Erickson, Green Paul Aranas and Constitution candidate Douglas Patterson. - Julia Butler Hansen
Julia Butler Hansen (1907-1988), born Julia Caroline Butler, June 14, 1907, in Portland, Oregon, USA, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1960-1974. She represented Washington's Third Congressional District as a Democrat. Her father, Donald C. Butler, was sheriff of Wahkiakum County and her mother, Maude (Kimball), was named Washington's "Mother of the Year" in 1960. Hansen attended public school in Washington. - Leonard Shoen
Leonard Samuel Shoen (1916, Minnesota - 1999) was an American entrepreneur who founded the U-Haul truck and trailer organization in Ridgefield, Washington. After growing up in the farm belt of the United States during the Great Depression, he envisioned the market for rental vehicles for families who wished to avoid the expense of professional transfer and storage companies and move themselves around the country. - Lowell Stockman
Lowell Stockman (April 12, 1901 - August 9, 1962) was a representative from Oregon to the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953. - Edward Allworth
Edward Christopher Allworth (6 July 1887 - 24 June 1966) was an American Captain in the U.S. Army during the First World War. Born in Battle Ground, Washington, Allworth graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1916. He enlisted at Corvallis, Oregon in 1917 and joined the 60th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Division. On 5 November 1918, mere days from the armistice, … - Mary Carlin Yates
Mary Carlin Yates (b. 1946) is U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana. Yates earned her BA in English from Oregon State University where she was initiated as a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and earned a Master's in Comparative East West Humanities from New York University, where she pursued her doctoral studies in Asian Affairs. She served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi from 1999 until June 2002. - Hüsnü Özyeğin
Hüsnü Özyeğin is a Turkish businessman in the finance sector and self-made billionaire. He is owner of FIBA Holding, a group of mostly finance companies in Turkey. Özyeğin was born in 1944. He graduated 1963 from the Robert College in İstanbul and went to the USA with just a thousand dollars in his pocket. There, he studied civil engineering at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, receiving a BS degree. - Rod Chandler
Rodney Dennis "Rod" Chandler (born July 13 1942 in La Grande, Oregon) was a U.S. Representative from Washington. He is the great-great-grandnephew of long-time Michigan Senator Zachariah Chandler. Chandler received a B.S. from Oregon State University and a M.Ed. from the University of Nevada. Chandler was elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1974, where he served until 1982, and was elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth Congress, … - Travis Rush
Travis Benjamin Rush (born 15 January 1971) is a country music singer from Oregon. - James Withycombe
James Withycombe (March 21, 1843-March 3, 1919) was a British-born American politician, a Republican, and the 15th Governor of Oregon. - George Bruns
George Bruns (July 3 1914 - May 23 1983) was a composer of music for film and television who worked on many Disney films. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work. Bruns was born in Sandy, Oregon and went to college at Oregon State University, graduating in 1936. Among his work is the song Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) (which he co-wrote with Xavier Atencio), used in the Disney theme park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean and the movies based on that ride. - Frederick Steiwer
Frederick Steiwer (October 13, 1883 - February 3, 1939) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born on a farm near Jefferson, Oregon, he attended the public schools, graduated from Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis in 1902 and from the University of Oregon at Eugene in 1906. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Pendleton in 1909, and was also interested in agricultural pursuits. - Willi Unsoeld
Willi Unsoeld (October 25, 1926 - March 4, 1979) was an American climber who, along with Tom Hornbein, were members of the first American expedition to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963. Unsoeld and Hornbein's legendary climb was the first ascent from the peak's west ridge. His subsequent activities include Peace Corps director in Nepal, speaker for Outward Bound, faculty member at The Evergreen State College and mountaineering guide. - Katherine Ann Power
Katherine Ann Power (b. January 25 1949) is an American ex-criminal and long-time fugitive, who was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Most Wanted List in 1970, along with her accomplice Susan Edith Saxe, a fellow student at Brandeis University. The two participated in robberies at a Massachusetts National Guard armory and a bank in Brighton, Massachusetts where Boston police officer William Schroeder was shot and killed by one of their accomplices. - Wayne L. Hubbell
Wayne L. Hubbell (born 24 March 1943) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Jules Stein Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the visual system, and is primarily supported by a grant from the National Eye Institute. <br - Mercedes Alison Bates
Mercedes Alison Bates (1916 - August 16, 1997) is a graduate of Oregon State University most famous for her involvement in General Mills, specifically the Betty Crocker division. Mercedes Bates graduated with a degree in Health and Human Sciences in 1936 from Oregon State University. She was also a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. Post graduation, Mrs. Bates had a storied job history. She started working at Southern California Gas Company as a Supervisor of home services.
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